Morning Briefing: February 23, 2026
The $133 billion refund nobody's tracking. China has the leverage heading into Beijing. And 67% of teams using AI agents report gains — but only 10% are scaling them.
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The $133 billion refund nobody's tracking. China has the leverage heading into Beijing. And 67% of teams using AI agents report gains — but only 10% are scaling them.
PPI hits 0.8% core — double the estimate. Dow drops 700. Qwen3.5 declared production-ready. Dyson loses the jurisdiction argument. Five signals, one verdict.
The Supreme Court’s tariff ruling, Trump’s rapid 10% replacement tariff, a $175 billion refund risk, NVIDIA’s earnings test, and India’s AI summit define a weekend where policy shocks and compute economics collide.
NVIDIA’s proposed OpenAI investment, ByteDance’s Hollywood challenge, India’s AI diplomacy, and China’s accelerating model race reveal how capital, media, and state strategy were converging before markets opened.